GOD IS EVERYWHERE. 1. (8) Oh! show me where is Hē, HUGH HUTTON. To whom thou bend'st the knee, And, lo! no form is near; But where doth God appear? Oh! teach me who is God, and where His glories shine, That I may kneel and pray, and call thy Father mine, 2. Gaze on that arch above, The glittering vault admire! There view immensity!-behold! my God is there; The sun, the 3. See, where the mountains rise; Where thundering torrents foam. He reared those giant cliffs-supplies that dashing stream- 4. Look on that world of waves, To raise to quell the storm; The depths his bounty share, Where sport the scaly swarm: Tempests and calms obey the same Almighty voice 5. Nor eye nor thought can soar That God is everywhere; The viewless Spirit He-immortal, holy, blessed- QUESTIONS.-1. What objects in nature are pointed to, in this piece, as displaying the presence and power of God? 2. What exhorta tion in the last stanza? 3. What is meant by "finny nations"? What kind of emphasis on thy and mine, 1st stanza? tone of voice should most of this poetry be read? Rem. p. 24. With what Why? See LESSON LXXXIX. 2. RE VERS' ES, SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. AD VERS' I TY, misfortune. changes; vicissitudes. 3. DE SPOND' EN CY, a sinking of spirits; hopelessness. 4. DIS AS' TER, calamity; misfortune. 5. LU' RID, gloomy; dismal. 6. CON' TRAST, opposite state or condition. 7. IMPERI OUS LY, haughtily. 8. TYR' AN NY, oppressive rule; severity. 9. POIGN' ANT, sharp; keen; severe. 10. AN TIC I PA' TION, foretaste; expectation. 11. Cow' ED, depressed with fear. 12. PLI AN CY, 14. DEV. readiness to yield. 13. SUP' PLE, pliant; bending easily. AS TA' TIONS, desolations; ruins. 15. UN DIS MAY ED, not frightened. 16. MINT, place where money is coined. 17. SU PER SCRIP' TION, that which is written on any thing. 18. DE COY' ED, allured. 19. PARSI MO' NI OUS, Stingy; sparing in the use of. HOW TO MEET ADVERSITY. HENRY WARD BEECHER. 1. Men become indolent through the reverses of fortune. Surely despondency is a grievous thing, and a heavy load to bear. To see disaster and wreck in the present, and no light in the future, but only storms, lurid by the contrast of past prosperity, and growing darker as they advance; to wear a constant expectation of woe like a girdle; to see want at the door, imperiously knocking, while there is no strength to repel, or courage to bear, its tyranny,-indeed, this, this is dreadful enough. But there is a thing more dreadful. It is more dreadful if the man is wrecked with his fortune. 2. Can any thing be more poignant in anticipation, than one's own self, unnerved, cowed down, and slackened into utter pliancy, and helplessly drifting and driven down the troubled sea of life? Of all things on earth, next to his God, a broken man should cling to a courageous industry. If it brings nothing back, and saves nothing, it will save him. you, 3. To be pressed down by adversity, has nothing in it of disgrace; but it is disgraceful to lie down under it, like a supple dog. Indeed, to stand composedly in the storm, amidst its rage and wildest devastations; to let it beat over you, and roar around you, and pass by and leave you undismayed,—THIS IS TO BE A MAN. 4. Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon us his image and superscription. In this matter, men may learn of insects. The ant will repair his dwelling as often as the mischievous foot crushes it; the spider will exhaust life itself before he will live without a web; the bee can be decoyed from his labor neither by plenty nor scarcity. If summer be abundant, it toils none the less; if it be parsimonious of flowers, the tiny laborer sweeps a wider circle, and by industry repairs the frugality of the season. Man should be ashamed to be rebuked in vain by the spider, the ant, and the bee. QUESTIONS.-1. How do men often become indolent? 2. What should a broken man cling to? 3. Is it disgraceful to be in adversity? 4. What does the author say of adversity in the last paragraph? 5. How do the ant, the spider, and the bee, rebuke indolent men! 27. Why the falling inflection on life, 2d paragraph! See Note I. p. What kind of emphasis on him, 2d paragraph? LESSON XC. SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. IN FLEX' I BLE, unyielding. 2. CON STANOY, firmness. 3. Co PI OUS LY, abundantly. 4. SO LIC IT A' TIONS, earnest requests. 5. PATIENT, a sick person. 6. IN CUR' RED, brought on. 7. DIS PLEAS' URE, anger. 8. MER IT ED, deserved. 9. AD VEN TI TIOUS, accidental. 10. COM MU' NI CATE, to impart; bestow. 11. CON FIRM', to settle; establish. 12. AD U LA' TION, excessive praise. Charles XII., king of Sweden, and one of the ablest of warriors, was born at Stockholm, June 27th, 1682, and, after many brilliant military successes and sad vicissitudes, was struck on the head by a cannon ball, and killed, at Fredericshall, Nov. 30th, 1718. CHARACTER OF CHARLES THE TWELFTH. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 1. Courage and inflexible constancy formed the basis of this monarch's character. In his tenderest years he gave instances of both. When he was yet scarcely seven years old, being at dinner with the queen, his mother, intending to give a bit of bread to a great dog he was fond of, this hungry animal snapped greedily at the morsel, and bit his hand in a terrible manner. The wound bled copiously; but our young hero, without offering to cry, or taking the least notice of his misfortune, endeavored to conceal what had happened, lest his dog should be brought into trouble, and wrapped his bloody hand in the napkin. 2. The queen perceiving that he did not eat, asked him the reason. He contented himself with replying, that he thanked her; he was not hungry. They thought he was taken ill, and so repeated their solici tations. But all was in vain, though the poor child was already grown pale with the loss of blood. An officer who attended at table, at last perceived it; for Charles would sooner have died than betrayed his dog, that he knew intended no injury. 3. At another time, when in the small-pox, and his case appeared dangerous, he grew one day very uneasy in his bed, and a gentleman who watched him, desirous of covering him up close, received from the patient a violent box on the ear. Some hours after, observing the prince more calm, he entreated to know how he had incurred his displeasure, or what he had done to have merited a blow. "A blów?" replied Charles; "I do not remember any thing of it: Ì remember, indeed, that I thought myself in the battle of Arbela, fighting for Darius, where I gave Alexander a blow, which brought him to the ground." 4. What great effects might not these two qualities of courage and constancy have produced, had they at first received a just direction! Charles, with proper instructions, thus naturally disposed, would have been the delight and the glory of his age. Happy those princes who are educated by men who are at once virtuous and wise, and have been for some time in the school of affliction; who weigh happiness against glory, and teach their royal pupils the real value of fame: who are ever showing the superior dignity of man to that of royalty; that a peasant who does his duty, is a nobler character than a king of even middling reputation. 5. Happy, I say, were princes, could such men be found to instruct them; but those to whom such an education is generally intrusted, are men who themselves have acted in a sphere too high to know mankind. Puffed up themselves with an idea of false grandeur, and measuring merit by adventitious circumstances of greatness, they generally communicate those fatal prejudices to their pupils, confirm their pride by adulation, or increase their ignorance by teaching them to despise that wisdom which is found among the poor. QUESTIONS.-1. What qualities formed the basis of the character of Charles the XII.? 2. What proofs of his courage and constancy are cited by the author? 3. How might Charles have proved the delight and glory of his age? 4. When was he born? 5. Where and how did he die? Why should blow be read with the rising inflection? See Note I, Rule II. p. 27. Why is p doubled in snapped and wrapped? See Sanders' Spelling Book, p. 167. |